Jeppo sees the light
A friend and serious S&W collector who doesn't post much here called me one day. He asked, "Jeppo, have any interest in somethin' called a Shorty 45?" I replied, "Are you kidding?".
It seems a friend had one he wanted to sell. I told him to tell the friend we were leaving immediately. We actually drove down to the friend's place a few days later and were ushered into the basement, filled with more reloading equipment, supplies and safes than I'd ever seen in one place. His friend pulls out the Shorty 45 and I reach for my wallet before he can change his mind.
The deal done, my friend tells the seller, "Show Jeppo your 945". Seller asks, "Does he prefer stainless or black?".
Out comes a 945 and it was like my first kiss. I asked if I could rack the slide and I was in; hook, line and sinker. From that moment, I became obsessed and eventually convinced another collector to sell me two of his four 945's.
After the seller demanded I stop drooling on his 945 and hand it back over, he began opening various safes and pulling out endless NIB or almost so examples of guns I'd never actually seen before and many I'd never even heard of.
On the way home with my friend, my Shorty 45 resting comfortably in the trunk, I told my friend I knew why the seller had been willing to sell me that gun...
It was probably the least valuable and least special one in his collection.
